The Progressive Era

Constitutional Amendments

100

This Amendment allowed women to vote.

Nineteenth Amendment

200

This Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages

Eighteenth Amendment

300

This the term for the policy (NOT the amendment) that prohibited alcohol

Prohibition

400

This Amendment made it legal for the government to tax incomes

Sixteenth Amendment

500

This Amendment allows citizens to elect their senators directly

Seventeenth Amendment

Laws and Acts

100

This law used federal inspectors to ensure that meat packing plants were clean

Meat Inspection Act

200

This law requires food and drugs to be accurately labeled

Pure Food and Drug Act

300

This law allows the federal government st set maximum rates on the railroads

The Hepburn Act

400

This law prohibited railroads from offering rebates or kickbacks to some customers

Elkins Act

500

This law lowered taxes on imported goods for the first time in 50 years

Underwood Tariff

Election of 1912

100

This person was the candidate for president for the Republican Party in 1912

William Howard Taft

200

This political party was also called the "Bull Moose Party" during the election of 1912

Progressive Party

300

This person was the candidate for president for the Democratic Party in 1912

Woodrow Wilson

400

This political party advocated for the end of the capitalist system during the election of 1912

Socialist Party

500

This person was the candidate for president for the Socialist Party in 1912

Eugene V. Debs

Reforms

100

This is a reform in which the government conserves or protects the nation's national resources, often by creating national parks

conservation

200

This is a political reform in which citizens vote to remove elected officials from office

recall

300

This is the term for journalists who uncovered government corruption and poor living and working conditions in American cities

muckrakers

400

This is a political reform in which citizens, instead of the state governments, make the laws

initiative

500

This is a political reform in which citizens vote to approve the laws made by state governments

referendum

This and That

100

This is the term for a period of reform in the early 1900s in the United States

Progressive Era

200

This is the term for businesses that are the only producers of a product in a particular industry

monopolies

300

This is the title of a book that details the unclean conditions in the meat packing industry; after he read it, Theodore Roosevelt pushed for reforms in the meat packing plants

The Jungle

400

This African-American leader was invited to speak at the White House by President Roosevelt

Booker T. Washington

500

This major global event brought a close to the Progressive Era

World War I